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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

E. F. PERCIVAL AND N. S. TRUE, OF HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVED FRUIT- BASKET.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 81,205, dated August18, 1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, E. F. PERCIVAL and N. S. TRUE, of Hammonton, in thecounty of Atlantic, and in the State of New Jersey, have inventedcertain new and useful Im? provements in Fruit-Baskets; and do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

This invention consists in connecting the top of an open basket,constructed as described, by a continuous band, which forms both aninside and outside hoop.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use ourinvention, we will now proceed to describe its construction.

In the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification, A representsthe bottom of the basket, which has a groove cut in it around and atsuitable distance from the edge. In this groove the slats B B areplaced, and some or all of them fastened to the bottom by small tacks orother suitable means.

The slats are connected at top by a band, C, which passes around theoutside of the slats, and then on the inside, forming one continuoushoop, binding the slats both on the outside and inside.

Having thus fully described our invention, whatwe claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an article of manufacture, a fruit-basket, or other hollowwooden-Ware, when the slats or staves composing the same are connectedat the top with a continuous band, forming both inside and outside hoop,the whole constructed substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our handsthis 17th day of June, 1868.

E. E. rERoIvAL. N. s. TRUE.

Witnesses Trios. J. SMITH, C. A. PEROIVAL.

